Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a love-born of God’s care for every need.

Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.

It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; /neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.